Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
via Charles Hugh-Smith So hey, central bank cheerleaders, lackeys, toadies, apologists, apparatchiks and sycophants: no, the central banks aren’t going to “save” your precious asset bubbles from popping. There’s a fanciful confidence afoot that central banks will once again coordinate a global “save” as markets careen out of control. They won’t. There are many reasons for …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Globalization and financialization have fueled the global economy for 40 years. Now they’re in the decline phase of the S-Curve. Does anyone benefit from a deep, prolonged global recession? Perhaps not in absolute terms, but in relative terms we can say some will suffer less than others. We can also …
by Charles Hugh-Smith How did someone like me get shadow-banned? There is no way to know, and that’s a problem for our society and our ability to solve the polycrisis we now face. It seems there are many reasons to get shadow-banned, but unfortunately we’re never told what “crime” we committed nor are we given …